Country: USA
Year: 1966
Duration: 50'
“Cocteau’s monologue, in which a woman alone in her apartment is having a phone conversation with her lover who is leaving with her for another woman, is an exceptional piece of theatre, which I had already recorded in the past. […] We filmed the movie in two days, without any possibility to delay. […] The first day was a wreck. Four cameras were following me up close, but I never knew which one was working at any given time. The four production assistants were constantly mumbling into their microphones, which was a major source of nuisance. I was so unfocused that I kept forgetting my lines, with the result that, by the end of the first day, we were only able to shoot ‘three’ minutes out of the show’s fifty. […] Luckily, the next day I returned to the studios, after a good night of sleep, well disposed and ready to deal with all the inconveniences that had bothered me the first day, and the work proceeded swiftly, allowing us to finish within the allotted time.” (Ingrid Bergman, Alan Burgess, My Story)
Biography
film director
Ted Kotcheff
Ted Kotcheff (Toronto, Canada, 1931) has worked as a TV director and then made his big screen debut with Tiara Tahiti (1962), and has since become a prolific film director of dramas, comedies, war movies, and thrillers. In particular, Wake in Fright (1971), re-edited in 2009 and awarded with the Heritage Film Award by the Cannes Film Festival; The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974), which won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale; Uncommon Valor (1983); First Blood (1982) and the comedy Weekend at Bernie’s (1989), are his greatest successes. Since the year 2000, he has been mainly dedicating himself to directing the TV series Law & Order.
FILMOGRAFIA
Tiara Tahiti (1962), Wake in Fright (1971), Billy Two Hats (La mia pistola per Billy, 1974), The Apprenticeship of Duddy Krawitz (Soldi ad ogni costo, 1974), Fun with Dick and Jane (Non rubare… se non è strettamente necessario, 1977), Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (Qualcuno sta uccidendo i più grandi cuochi d’Europa, 1978), North Dallas Forty (I mastini del Dallas, 1979), First Blood (Rambo, 1982), Uncommon Valor (Fratelli nella notte, 1983), Switching Channels (Cambio marito, 1988), Winter People (Gente del Nord, 1989), Weekend at Bernie’s (Weekend con il morto, 1989), Folks! (Guai in famiglia, 1992).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Ted Kotcheff
soggetto/story dalla pièce La voce umana di/from the play La voix humaine by Jean Cocteau
sceneggiatura/screenplay Clive Exton
scenografia/production design Michael Yates
interprete/cast Ingrid Bergman
produttori/producers David Susskind, Lars Schmidt
produzione/production Talented Associates Redifussion Televison
soggetto/story dalla pièce La voce umana di/from the play La voix humaine by Jean Cocteau
sceneggiatura/screenplay Clive Exton
scenografia/production design Michael Yates
interprete/cast Ingrid Bergman
produttori/producers David Susskind, Lars Schmidt
produzione/production Talented Associates Redifussion Televison
